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Letter to the Editor regarding the article: "identifying pre-hospital factors associated with outcome for major trauma patients in a regional trauma network: an exploratory study"

The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report some methodological shortcomings in a recently published article. Issues regarding missing values and overfitting are mentioned. First, Complete Case (CC) analysis was used instead of an imputation method. Second, there was a high chance of overfitt...

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Autores principales: Sewalt, Charlie A., Wiegers, Eveline J. A., Venema, Esmee, Lingsma, Hester F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5702121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29178926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-017-0454-1